But if you apply one rule, you have to apply it equally and fairly.
Should women be able to have “own gender” groups, clubs and support groups? Or should men be allowed admittance?
I think it is true that men and women dont experience the exact same things or see things in exactly the same way, all the time. Men and women are whilst 99.9% like men, do need to have that remaining percentage catered for.
Ditto, when men get together they can have a tendancy to boorish behaviour. Men behave differently in the company of women. Whilst I might have been able to avail myself of a masonic introduction, I chose not to, and left organisations like Round Table as well simply as my idea of a good evening isn’t one in exclusively male company. However, I see nothing wrong in it in itself and wouldn’t condem others for doing that. I also therefore apply the reverse and would have no issues with clubs or societies that I am barred from on gender terms, as they simply serve needs that I don’t have.
Sure, golf clubs and working mens clubs, are not behaving appropriately in disbarring women, so its hard to draw a line, but on a case by case basis, leave the WI for women.
Equality isn’t the same as recognisisng genuine differences.